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Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 22:27:30 -0800
To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT sympatico DOT ca>, Gene Buckle <geneb AT web DOT wa DOT net>
From: Gene Buckle <geneb AT deltasoft DOT com>
Subject: Re: [opendos] Rants and Raves
Cc: Tim Gerla <timg AT climax DOT polaristel DOT net>, opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
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>> Depending on the one you download, 7 megs or less.  (the smaller version
>> doesn't include the Personal Netware servers, and other LAN tools)
>
>How many different packages will there be?  Ie: One with PN, one
>without, ???
>

Yes.  There will be 4 available for download.  OpenDOS "Lite" which is just
the operating system and support programs, no Personal Netware, the second
will be a "full" version that will contain everything.  Each package has
two distributions.  An image version that can be used with an included
program to directly generate floppies, and a "file" version that is just an
archive with everything in it.

>
>> Right now you're going to have to suffer with about 9 different tools (5
>> compilers, 4 assemblers) to build the whole distribution.  I'm working on
>> cutting this number down however.
>
>Are you saying that you need ALL of the compilers listed in a past
>email message to compile OpenDOS????????  If that is so, then I am
>going to be disappointed because I only have Borland compilers,
>assemblers, and DJGPP.
>
Right now, that is the case.  Watcom C is required on COMMAND.COM to get
the size down.  I'm going to be working on getting the tool count way down.
 I don't know if I'll be able to do anything about the assemblers though
because my assembly skills suck rocks. *grin*

>If that is the case, I guess I won't be downloading the sources after
>all.  :o(
>

Sure ya can.  You can help me port to one environment. ;)

g.